Does Article Marketing really work as well as some say?

I can only tell you about my experience. I started Article marketing in March 2005. I tried several sites but decided to stick with one and the was ezinearticles because it gave the best results at the time.

One of the major benefits was that you could have links in the body of the content. These days because of abuse you can only use the resource box.

Let's look at some stats:

My best article currently has over 14,000 views and nearly 10,000 URL clicks, the URL clicks are only tracked from the resource box. This was one of my old articles that was allowed links in the content but those links aren't tracked.

Another article submitted around the same sort of time has 400 view and 0 URL clicks.

Make of this what you will.

 

It works but you must be willing to put in a lot of work to make article marketing work.

 

Just to be fair and honest, I've had some duds too like newsniche describes above. It happens. I have 1 article that I published in March of last year which still ranks on the first page of G for its keyword and brings me several sales each month, I've also got articles that did well for a few days and then died on me.

The thing is when that happens I'm always able to go back and find why it died. It's always my own fault. Either I goofed in the keyword research, or made some poor word choices in the article body that would lead to readers clicking away instead of thru my link(s), or my links themselves aren't optimized to prompt reader action.

It's always something I did though that caused the article to under perform, and once you have some success with article marketing you learn to see why certain articles do better than others, and can recognize your own mistakes when an article dies on you like that. At least that's my experience.

 

Sure it works. They only time it doesn't work is when the articles are not worth reading. When people take their time to read articles that means they are looking for something. that is targeted traffic.